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The Collapse of Compassion

According to the 2025 Compassion Report from Sanford’s School of Medicine, only 1 in 3 Americans feel compassion for all groups of marginalized people. Lindsay C. Gibson, author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents thinks [...]

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It All Comes Down to Kindness

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’ –Aldous Huxley In 2025, kindness is in short supply.  The mind-numbing genocide in Gaza is in its 15th month. Trump’s appointments [...]

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Moving Out of My Funk

I was in a week long funk brought on by the starvation in Gaza, procrastination over filing my taxes, and a stalled writing project.  As I sat brooding, a little voice whispered that I should visit the Portland Art Museum.  As an art lover and modest collector, I often find art museums restorative. Fresh out of other ideas, I obeyed that [...]

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Gardening Up To The End

GUEST POST by LISA SAVAGE Around where I live people grow food starting in earnest this time of the year. No matter what our religion or political persuasion, once the soil is warm and dry enough, we all of us poke in some seeds. Some years it rains so often that the seeds fail to germinate and instead rot in the ground. It’s not great [...]

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Then The Line Went Dead

GUEST POST by MICHAEL STEINMAN A self-confessed dinosaur, I have always liked telephone conversations, especially the old-fashioned kind: two friends, one (me) on a landline, perhaps drinking tea, leisurely describing events but more endearingly, feelings.  The telephone handset made possible the kinds of intimacy one might be shy of having [...]

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